Ad Hoc Consultative Committee for the Selection of the
Executive Vice President of the University for the Health System
and Dean of the School of Medicine

I am pleased to announce the formation of an Ad Hoc Consultative Committee to advise me on the selection of Penn’s next Executive Vice President of the University for the Health System and Dean of the School of Medicine, succeeding Arthur Rubenstein, who announced last month that he will step down as planned at the end of his second term, on June 30, 2011.

Arthur’s transition will mark the conclusion of ten enormously successful and productive years that have immeasurably strengthened Penn Medicine. As Dean, EVP, and a key member of the University’s senior leadership, his successor must be academically eminent, administratively experienced, and clinically knowledgeable, with an unwavering ethical compass, the highest aspirations for the future of Penn Medicine, and a demonstrated commitment and ability to encourage faculty and staff collaboration and to collaborate with the University’s Deans and senior leadership.

I am confident that the Consultative Committee that I have assembled with the help of the School of Medicine’s Faculty Senate Steering Committee will do an excellent job, and I am grateful to its members for their willingness to undertake this important task.

The Consultative Committee will be chaired by Provost Vincent Price, the Steven H. Chaffee Professor of Communication and Political Science. The other members of the Committee, in addition to Provost Price, are:

Stephen P. Steinberg, Advisor to the President, Office of the President

Adam Michaels, Assistant to the Vice President and Chief of Staff, Office of the President

Consultants to the Committee

John Isaacson, President and Managing Director, Isaacson, Miller

Barbara Stevens, Vice President and Director, Isaacson, Miller

Philip Jaeger, Managing Associate, Isaacson, Miller

Sean Farrell, Managing Associate, Isaacson, Miller

The Committee welcomes—and will keep in the strictest confidence —nominations, suggestions, and input from all members of the University community. For fullest consideration, communications should be received, preferably in electronic form, no later than May 31, 2010, and may be addressed to the Committee staff, Dr. Steinberg (sps@upenn.edu) or Mr. Michaels (adampm@upenn.edu), or preferably, to Mr. John Isaacson, Managing Director, at 3978@imsearch.com (or c/o Isaacson, Miller, 1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW Suite 710, Washington, DC 20009).